BRUNCH WITH BINGO! GIADA'S FEEL GOOD FOOD: A PREVIEW

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 GIADA'S FEEL GOOD FOOD:
My Healthy Recipes and Secrets
BY GIADA dE LAURENTIIS

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Food Network’s most beautiful star reveals her secrets for staying fit and feeling great in this gorgeous, practical book with healthy recipes including nutritional information, and personal lifestyle and beauty tips.

Finally answering the question her fans ask most often, “How do you stay so trim?,” Giada De Laurentiis shares the delicious easy recipes and tips she uses to maximize energy and remain fit. Here are 120 recipes for breakfasts, juices, lunches, snacks, dinners, and desserts that can be combined into a month of delicious feel-good meals. So that everyone can enjoy these dishes, many are gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, and/or vegan, with helpful icons to call them out—and, for the very first time, each recipe includes a calorie count and nutritional analysis. Special sections delve into Giada's everyday life, including her beauty and exercise routines, how she satisfies sugar fixes, what’s always in her bag, and her ordering tips for eating in restaurants. With 100 color photographs, Giada’s Feel Good Food is a beautiful guide to staying on track while still eating everything and enjoying life to its fullest. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

GIADA DE LAURENTIIS is the Emmy-winning star of Food Network’s Everyday Italian, Giada's Weekend Getaways, and Giada at Home; a contributing correspondent for NBC’s Today; and the author of four New York Times bestselling cookbooks. She attended the Cordon Bleu in Paris and worked at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago restaurant in Los Angeles before starting her own catering company, GDL Foods. Born in Rome, she grew up in Los Angeles, where she now lives with her husband, Todd, and their daughter, Jade. To read more about this lovely and talented chef, visit her website HERE.

A SAMPLE RECIPE FROM GIADA:

SPICED PUMPKIN-RAISIN COOKIES

Yields 24 Cookies

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 3/4 cup raw sugar (such as Sugar in the Raw)
• 1/2 cup canned pumpkin puree
• 1/3 cup safflower or grapeseed oil
• 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup raisins

DIRECTIONS:

1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350ºF.
2. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
3. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and allspice.
4. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, pumpkin puree, oil, maple syrup, and vanilla.
5. Using a flexible rubber spatula, gradually stir the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture.
6. Stir in the raisins.
7. For each cookie, drop 1 generous tablespoon of batter onto a prepared sheet, spacing the mounds about 1 inch apart. (Or use a mini ice cream scoop.)
8. Using moistened fingertips, flatten each to a 2-inch-diameter round.
9. Bake the cookies until browned around the edges and no longer sticky on top, 17 to 20 minutes.
10. Using a metal spatula, transfer the cookies to a wire rack and cool completely. 

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